GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: High Tech, M4 Corridor, Pearl River Delta
7 Feb 2018
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Industrial location: key factors: access to inputs (raw materials, energy, caution: no absolute correlation. If a location is rich with natural resources does not mean it is industrialized in terms of its production capabilities (congo v. Industrial sector of economies (4 categories: primary activities: concerned directly with natural resources, mining, agriculture, forestry, fishing extractive activities, secondary activities: processing or transformation of raw materials into manufactured goods, manufacturing activities , light vs. 2: world"s major industrial regions, overall, global distribution of industry is uneven, dominated by regions that industrialized early, north america: manufacturing belt. Industrialization took root here abundance of raw materials (coal in. Rust belt any longer (moving to places where costs are cheaper, unions are less strong: 5 sun belts: high tech pockets, technology triangle: raleigh durham charlotte (software) 3: southwest texas (dallas, fortworth): computers, southern california, 2 million employees in manufacturing industries, specialized in apparel, aircraft, and aerospace (1930s, weather and success of douglas and.
